Justice Deepak Kumar Agarwal while hearing a bail plea directed the Law Secretary, Bhopal to take steps to appoint competent lawyers to represent the State.
The lawyers have been on strike over the 25 debt scheme, as per which district courts are required to dispose of 25 of the oldest cases within 3 months.
The Council claimed that the High Court has taken no initiative to meet the demands of the advocates to revoke a scheme requiring district courts to dispose of 25 of the oldest cases within 3 months.
Lawyers are on strike to protest a scheme introduced by the High Court by which the 25 oldest cases in each of the district courts have to be disposed of in three months.